Greetings. New to the forum. I've found several references to my problem online, but none of the suggestions seems to work. I have a brand new iMac running 10.9.4 Mavericks. It has a 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 16 GB of RAM. I also have the 1TB Fusion Hard Drive.
When I open Photoshop it snaps open almost immediately. If I click on a photo file and "open with" Photo shop, photoshop snaps open almost immediately and the photo opens about as quickly. BUT... then I get the spinning beach ball for anywhere from 2-3 minutes before I can actually use the program. Before I updated CS6 today, Photoshop would open and hang for 2-4 minutes on the "measuring memory" message. Sometimes it would open, sometimes it would not open. I just got CS6 today- and yes, it's a legal copy with valid serial number purchased from the university.
I've tried a few other programs in the suite (Premiere, Encore, Illustrator...and gave up waiting for them to load. I've tried changing the performance settings in Photoshop. I've deleted bad fonts. I unchecked the "use graphics processor." I've made sure that Photoshop can get through the iMac firewall.
Once the program finally loads, I can work with it and it seems "normal." Ive have CS6 on my work iMac and it is very fast- but that machine is running Mountain Lion.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
rtvman55